Earlier this summer, Better Wyoming launched a grassroots campaign aimed at the 2024 legislative session to support more affordable healthcare access, following up on our win last year helping to pass “Medicaid for Moms.”

The campaign started quietly—we used social media and text messages to distribute a survey about local healthcare issues in targeted communities, connecting with people from a huge variety of backgrounds and beliefs.

Hundreds of people have taken the survey, and each person who does receives a phone call from a Better Wyoming organizer to learn more about the person’s perspectives and concerns.

Building on these new relationships, and bringing in Better Wyoming’s existing base of healthcare access supporters, we’re now in the midst of hosting a series of healthcare summits across Wyoming. This is the first step toward collectively deciding our demands for lawmakers during the 2024 session.

Our first three summits took place in Cheyenne, Lander, and Casper, and they both were smashing successes.

Read more about the Cheyenne event via the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle.

Read more about the Lander event via the Lander Journal.

If you live in Laramie, Fremont, Natrona, or Converse Counties, you’ve probably already heard of this campaign. These are places where we’re grateful to have hired three outstanding new field organizers who helped plan our summits in these locations.

Wyoming residents from all corners of the state will have the chance to weigh on the issues we ultimately bring to the Legislature during a statewide Zoom call from 5:30 – 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5. Stay tuned for more information on that.

Please join Better Wyoming and members of your community at our summits.